New feature

[appaz]

My company wants to buy vBulletin but we would like to register users via a different way.

We would like to open a private forum where only our clients can read and write messages. All other people can only read messages.

Thsi means that it should be possible to register users by using
an off-line procedure instead of using the usual form given by
the vBullettin forum.

As far as I know the vBullettin software does not give this
feature.

How can I get to it ? is there a third party which has already developed this kind of feature ?

Thank very much.
Best regards.

[JulianD]

You can close new registrations on the forums, and register new users via the Admin CP..

You can also configure the forums permissions to let your clients read and post, and the rest of the visitors, only read.

[Xenon]

if you enter the users via script directly into the db, then it would be possible without any problems

[appaz]

Thank you for your reply.
As I have never used this bulltein , can you give an idea on how complicate is the script to insert a new user dicrectly into the DB ?
How many tables have i to deal with ?
Thanks.

[NTLDR]

Creating a script to do this is pretty easy, you would just need to look at the existing files which show you how to do this. The number of tables would vary depending on what you want to add with the user. Normally with out hacks it would be 2 or 3.

[Xenon]

such a script would be very easy, as i know there are already users out which use on of thos scripts.

there are 2 tables you have to fill, nothing more